Open Letter To Yahoo!, Google, Trulia, and Zillow, Encouraging Data Standards
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As part of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), I have accepted the challenge along with the other 9 Board members to construct a real estate data standard that can be beneficial for all parties involved: Agents, Brokers, MLSs, and the multitude of vendors serving all aspects.
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Images and SEO
Thursday, December 27th, 2007A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search engines index your image content. If you’re trying to lift […]
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New Cities Added to Google StreetView
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Early this morning, Google announced they’ve added Street View imagery for 8 cities (23 totaly cities currently covered). The 8 new cities are Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence. The pace at which cities are being added is pretty impressive — 6 cities were added in October. At the current […]
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Google StreetView Expands
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Google has added additional street views in 6 cities today — Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. There’s no real real estate tie-in yet, but I’m guessing Google is thinking about integrating it into Google Base as a way to provide buyers a way to take a virtual walk through a city or neighborhood.
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